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Quote from: fishbushing on July 24, 2024, 10:09:24 PM

I would steer away from those older pedals simply bc the parts are harder to find ...

I would respectfully disagree with that. I have multiple GT drives and have rebuilt some of them fairly recently. It's easy to find non-Hobie cables and chains (which are cheaper than Hobie parts and, IMHO, better than the Hobie originals) and those are the parts that are by far the most likely to break. I make my own crank arms, so I can't comment on those (other than to say that I have a bunch of official Hobie crank arms, if anybody want to get one for cheap, not to mention pre-GT drums...). The only part that I've been unable to find is the spine, and the chance that you'll ever need a new one of those is extremely remote.

It might be true if we all have your DIY skills, time & stash of spare parts. Above I was mostly referring to the version 1 of the mirage drives (like the ones in the CL ad with those funny looking fins). I always prefer hobie part even though they are expensive. Buying expensive after market drums and parts to upgrade the older drives doesn't interest me. I'm in favor of the new tech always 

I've also been noticing less and less parts available off mariner-sails, cck, etc for the MirageDrive Classic Glide Tech (2015-2018) already. They used to be sold and available to us in days. Now it's not certain we can buy them like before.

I'm now craving for some 

They should definitely define what is "immediate" IMHO.

Thank you that helps a lot.

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